Hell's Queen

Reaper

I 'woke up' in the middle of the night. I didn't need to look at the clock to see what time it was, the Devil's hour. I always come back to my body at that hour.

Though it was such an odd name to call a meaningless thing really... I never will understand mortals' fascination on numbers and time... Eventually it'll run out, so why focus on it?

Geno.

I felt my soul freeze for a second at the name.

That mortal... I would steal the world's time, just for him... Just so he could be with me... So he can  become tainted enough to not fall into the fiery pits of torture... But live with me in my palace as my Queen...

I guess... I can understand a little...

A gentle smile formed on my face, my body rolling over to where my little Queen slept, but... He wasn't there... And the coldness suggested that he hadn't been there for an hour or so.

A sickening feeling filled my gut... I hated it...

But I followed it.

The feeling lead me to the door to the basement. I didn't know if it had been opened or not...

So, I opened it.

Instantly, the familiar smell of blood and death crowded my nose... The blood I knew well.

I don't know if I ran or teleported- possibly teleported- but I was in basement quickly... And there, I saw all of them... Dead and bloodied.

Dream's chest was ripped apart like an animal was trying to get to his insides. Blue's sockets were shattered, his own scarf shoved down his throat. Ink's wrists laid with so much scarring, yet it was the long, rope of a scarf he wore that finished him.

The worse was Geno... If that even was him...

His once white clothes were just this tattered, bloody mess... Bones were cracked and popping out of their joints. His skull had been battered in from constant banging on the concrete wall... His body was just... torn... It couldn't even be a body anymore...

Tears fell from my eyes, my legs collapsing beneath me. He was gone... And so were the others that my Generals were so keen on having.

I felt a presence behind me, several... But I didn't care if anyone saw me like this... My Queen died before his time... Before I could take him to his rightful home...

"No..." The soft voice was an angel's... Honey's.

Swiftly that gluttonous angel ran to his brother's limp corpse, ripping the scarf out of his throat. Dust followed him second.

Then Error went to Ink, getting him down from the ceiling. The other two were cuddled with their middle lover's dead body.

They all could move... But I couldn't... I couldn't move for a damn fuck of it!

Then I felt it. A pull, a tug, a soft push. Whatever the fuck you want to call it, I felt it!

That... That only happens when a soul can't go anywhere! Where it needs the top Angels and Demons to decided!

That... That had to be them! That had to be my Queen!

I stood up, breathing heavily and then with a swift flick of my hand, all of us were there. In that damn white void before Purgatory.

And standing right there was my mortal... My love, My Queen...

"Geno."